{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1098",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Submersible Craft Construction and Survey) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-submersible-craft-construction-and-survey-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to any submersible craft and its supporting equipment which is:\n(a) operated within waters which are in the United Kingdom or which are adjacent thereto and within the seaward limits of territorial waters, or\n(b) launched or operated from, or comprising, a ship registered in the United Kingdom or a British ship not registered in the United Kingdom.\n(2) These Regulation do not apply to diving bells.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1098/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:26.362503+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}